The results are heartbreaking!

My life improved immensely when I blocked their content on Facebook. I do that with all the clickbait mills...if more people did, they'd wither off and die.

and her elementary school has a very small minority population, but is not particularly affluent, and she consistently has asked him if Trump was going to win, and is worried about it because she thinks he will bring slavery back ...

One of her classmates, the biggest bully in the neighborhood and who for years now she consistently has reported swearing on the bus and generally being a menace, not surprisingly, likes Trump.

I was her age when Nixon was running in early 70s, and still remember being on the bus on the way to school and conversations like this coming up. That school was a bit more affluent with no minorities, and I remember knowing Nixon was a POS, and being stunned at how much support Nixon had.

We had class elections that year, and I had my classmates came to me and ask me to run for president, but that I had to run as a republican. Being burdened by my personal integrity even that early in life I said I would stick as a D.

Ended up losing and being class secretary instead.

That's the problem. What Trump says is bad enough, but after it ricochets around a paranoid echo chamber for a week or a few months, it's insane.

And nobody says, "No, that's not what he said" because then they'd look like they're not defending the falsehoods from all the rumor-mongering from defending Trump himself. For many, saying, "Trump didn't say he'd round up all the Quahoos and kill them" is tantamount to saying, "Trump's position about deporting Mexicans is fine and dandy." Many can't make the logical and factual distinction when the emotions are governing thinking.

Nixon's support was, to a large extent, a reaction to other trends in society. He was a reaction to actions that were good and just and, well, if intentionally offensive and in your face were considered good to a large extent because they were offensive and in your face. There's a line between being necessarily offensive because that's what you want to be and offensive because the facts, calmly laid out, are offensive in their implications. Even here, offense is just "offense," all in one big basket, so some things simply cannot be discussed lest they be censored by the DU community. At the same time, many of us believe we, at least, need to be defended not just from what's offensive but from "microaggressions".

This election is very reactionary, in the sense that on both sides there are large contingents reacting to certain actions. On the one side, there's all the injustice of the 1% based on conflating wealth and income, assuming that if we lose money they must be gaining money and that their money should be our money; and there's all the injustice of "systematic racism" and the making of something that must necessarily be impersonal made into something that can be the cause of blame at the personal level, so that some are absolved because of what they did as teenagers and young adults and others are inculpated for what was done to them as teens and young adults. Of course, the two "sides" are on a continuum, not just in separate channels separated by a high barrier.

it is organic as much as I can tell ... I have told her clearly slavery is not coming back. She keeps asking, because she is 10 and that is what her peers are saying.

But, Trump is no victim here. Not even close. You can say a LOT without implicitly saying it.

There is a reason folks hair are on fire over him AND while he has the support of some many people with biases and hatred of others.

That there is almost no way what he says or suggests can happen from a practical standpoint does not mitigate what he says or implies.